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Today in Labor and Writing History July 10, 1925: The Scopes "Monkey Trial" Trial began in Dayton, Tennessee. John T. Scopes was a high school science teacher accused of violating the Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. Scopes was found guilty and fined $100, but the verdict was overturned on a technicality. Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee wrote about it in their play “Inherit the Wind” (1955). However, they said that their play was a response to the McCarthy anticommunist witch hunt and a statement in support of free speech. Ronald Kidd's 2006 novel, “Monkey Town: The Summer of the Scopes Trial,” was also based on the Scopes Trial. Scopes was defended by labor Clarence Darrow, who had defended Eugene Debs, during the Pullman strike (1893); and Big Bill Haywood against false murder charges (1905); and the McNamara brothers for the false charges in the L.A. Times bombing (1910).

#workingclass #LaborHistory #scopes #evolution #education #teaching #science #clarencedarrow #freespeech #censorship #playwright #theater #historicalfiction #mccarthy #communism #fiction #novel #author #writer @bookstadon

I’ve been watching ‘Fellow Travellers’ on Paramount+.
Fictional story, but more than a few grains of truth in it.
Roy Cohn - sleazeball sidekick to McCarthy and sleazeball mentor to Agent Orange - plays an oversized role in the series.
And you realize you find a direct line between the 50s and now - Donna has learned well.
#trump #roycohn #mccarthy
#lgbtq

Ich höre gerade den #Kommentatorentalk von #RadioEins, die gerade u.a. über das Verbot der #afd #noafd diskutieren.

Mir geht dieses Risiko-Geschwafel so dermaßen auf die Nerven!

youtu.be/uPUtJuml-bY

Denn wer bitte spricht heute noch von der #KPD?! Richtig: Niemand.

Und warum? Weil sie verboten wurde - und zwar durchaus mit politischem Willen von #McCarthy und #Adenauer!

Was heißt das? #Parteiverbotsverfahren wirkt!

Die afd ist deutlich verfassungsfeindlicher KPD!

#Grüne#SPD#CDU
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@andreas_heitmann
Ja, das 'Committee on Government Operations' unter dem Vorsitz des Republikaners #McCarthy wird uns wie ein Puppenspiel vorkommen. Emigration wird aber für Verfolgte kein Ausweg sein, da praktisch alle infrage kommenden Staaten sich wohlverhalten müssen, weil Trump ihnen gemeinsam mit Putin und den Scheichs noch viel besser den Ölhahn abdrehen kann als 1973 die OPEC.

Aber Erdöl sicher Wohlstand und der Verbrenner bedeutet Freiheit!

Today in Labor History May 3, 1919: Pete Seeger was born, Patterson, New York. He started his folk singing career in the 1940s, with the Almanac singers. This group included Woodie Guthrie, Cisco Houston and Bess Lomax Hawes. They sang about industrial unionism and racial inclusiveness. In the 1950s, they reconstituted as the Weavers. However, they were blacklisted by the McCarthyites. As a result, radio stations stopped playing their records and their bookings were cancelled. Seeger was a member of the Communist Party USA, but left it in 1949. He was also an early backer of Bob Dylan until he went electric and Seeger threatened to unplug him at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. youtu.be/0fhL1E2cvvI

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"A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century
Thirteen ways of looking at #disinformation

Prologue: The Information War
In 1950, Sen. Joseph #McCarthy claimed that he had proof of a #communist spy ring operating inside the government. Overnight, the explosive accusations blew up in the national press, but the details kept changing. Initially, McCarthy said he had a list with the names of 205 communists in the State Department; the next day he revised it to 57."
tabletmag.com/sections/news/ar

Tablet MagazineA Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the CenturyThirteen ways of looking at disinformation

#Trump demands unprecedented control at #ColumbiaUniversity, alarming scholars and speech groups

By COLLIN BINKLEY and JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 7:52 PM EDT, March 14, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — "The Trump administration brushed aside decades of precedent when it ordered Columbia University to oust the leadership of an academic department, a demand seen as a direct attack on academic freedom and a warning of what’s to come for other colleges facing federal scrutiny.

"Federal officials told the university it must immediately place its #MiddleEasternStudies, #SouthAsianStudies, and #AfricanStudies Department under 'academic receivership for a minimum of five years.' The demand was among several described as conditions for receiving federal funding, including $400 million already pulled over allegations of #antisemitism.

"Across #academia, it was seen as a stunning intrusion.

"'It’s an escalation of a kind that is unheard of,' said Joan Scott, a historian and member of the academic freedom committee of the American Association of University Professors [#AAUP]. 'Even during the #McCarthy period in the United States, this was not done.'"

apnews.com/article/columbia-un
#CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol #Censorship #DumbingUsDown #Authoritarianism #SilencingDissent #AcademicFreedom #Fascism

AP News · Trump administration demands Columbia overhaul academic courses in extraordinary ultimatumVon Jake Offenhartz
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@georgetakei

The #McCarthy - #Era will be a "Walk in the Park" against these #brainwashed #Trump-#Zombies, cleaning the #Authorities from #Adversaries. This weakens by the Way the Security in every thinkable Form and strengthens the Will for #Whistleblowers
and #Sabotage from within. You can't find so many Trump loyal People, to control such big #Entities like #FBI, #NSA and #CIA. They rip them apart, but this will cause a lot of #Trouble. Does anyone respect #PamBondi ? It's a #Joke.

Pequeños y grandes pasos hacia el imperio de la inteligencia artificial

Fuente: Open Tech

Traducción de la infografía:

  • 1943 – McCullock y Pitts publican un artículo titulado Un cálculo lógico de ideas inmanentes en la actividad nerviosa, en el que proponen las bases para las redes neuronales.
  • 1950 – Turing publica Computing Machinery and Intelligence, proponiendo el Test de Turing como forma de medir la capacidad de una máquina.
  • 1951 – Marvin Minsky y Dean Edmonds construyen SNAR, la primera computadora de red neuronal.
  • 1956 – Se celebra la Conferencia de Dartmouth (organizada por McCarthy, Minsky, Rochester y Shannon), que marca el nacimiento de la IA como campo de estudio.
  • 1957 – Rosenblatt desarrolla el Perceptrón: la primera red neuronal artificial capaz de aprender.

(!!) Test de Turing: donde un evaluador humano entabla una conversación en lenguaje natural con una máquina y un humano.

  • 1965 – Weizenbaum desarrolla ELIZA: un programa de procesamiento del lenguaje natural que simula una conversación.
  • 1967 – Newell y Simon desarrollan el Solucionador General de Problemas (GPS), uno de los primeros programas de IA que demuestra una capacidad de resolución de problemas similar a la humana.
  • 1974 – Comienza el primer invierno de la IA, marcado por una disminución de la financiación y del interés en la investigación en IA debido a expectativas poco realistas y a un progreso limitado.
  • 1980 – Los sistemas expertos ganan popularidad y las empresas los utilizan para realizar previsiones financieras y diagnósticos médicos.
  • 1986 – Hinton, Rumelhart y Williams publican Aprendizaje de representaciones mediante retropropagación de errores, que permite entrenar redes neuronales mucho más profundas.

(!!) Redes neuronales: modelos de aprendizaje automático que imitan el cerebro y aprenden a reconocer patrones y hacer predicciones a través de conexiones neuronales artificiales.

  • 1997 – Deep Blue de IBM derrota al campeón mundial de ajedrez Kasparov, siendo la primera vez que una computadora vence a un campeón mundial en un juego complejo.
  • 2002 – iRobot presenta Roomba, el primer robot aspirador doméstico producido en serie con un sistema de navegación impulsado por IA.
  • 2011 – Watson de IBM derrota a dos ex campeones de Jeopardy!.
  • 2012 – La startup de inteligencia artificial DeepMind desarrolla una red neuronal profunda que puede reconocer gatos en vídeos de YouTube.
  • 2014 – Facebook crea DeepFace, un sistema de reconocimiento facial que puede reconocer rostros con una precisión casi humana.

(!!) DeepMind fue adquirida por Google en 2014 por 500 millones de dólares.

  • 2015 – AlphaGo, desarrollado por DeepMind, derrota al campeón mundial Lee Sedol en el juego de Go.
  • 2017 – AlphaZero de Google derrota a los mejores motores de ajedrez y shogi del mundo en una serie de partidas.
  • 2020 – OpenAI lanza GPT-3, lo que marca un avance significativo en el procesamiento del lenguaje natural.

(!!) Procesamiento del lenguaje natural: enseña a las computadoras a comprender y utilizar el lenguaje humano mediante técnicas como el aprendizaje automático.

  • 2021 – AlphaFold2 de DeepMind resuelve el problema del plegamiento de proteínas, allanando el camino para nuevos descubrimientos de fármacos y avances médicos.
  • 2022 – Google despide al ingeniero Blake Lemoine por sus afirmaciones de que el modelo de lenguaje para aplicaciones de diálogo (LaMDA) de Google era sensible.
  • 2023 – Artistas presentaron una demanda colectiva contra Stability AI, DeviantArt y Mid-journey por usar Stable Diffusion para remezclar las obras protegidas por derechos de autor de millones de artistas.

Gráfico: Open Tech / Genuine Impact

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#ajedrez#AlphaFold2#AlphaGo

Today in Labor History November 15, 1919: The main headquarters of the New York City Wobblies (IWW) was ransacked and destroyed by agents acting under the US Attorney General Palmer. The Palmer raids were part of the first U.S. communist witch hunt, starting well before the more well-known McCarthy purges. It was also where J. Edgar Hoover cut his baby teeth. Between 1917 and 1919, the IWW membership had plummeted from 300,000 in the U.S. to around 30,000, due in large part to the mass arrests, murders and deportations of IWW members, anarchists, and other radicals during the Palmer raids.

We could soon see a resurgence of this by the state, or by MAGA vigilantes, with a Trump presidency. However, their targets could be mainstream organizations like Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, LGBTQ organizations, immigrants’ rights organizations, and even Democratic Party offices, all of whom have been vilified by the right as “communists.” Not to mention concentration camps to house immigrants pending deportation, and raids of workplaces and schools to round up immigrant workers and children. What are you doing to prepare?

Former speaker McCarthy has spent much of his time, energy and money since leaving Congress in a bid to defeat the Republicans who cost him his gavel — and his political career

During the awkward interludeafter he was ousted from the speakership but before he resigned from Congress, #Kevin #McCarthy found himself standing on the House floor one afternoon next to Representative #Bob #Good of Virginia, ◻️one of the eight Republicans who had voted to remove him from power.◻️

🔶“I just traveled to your district,” Mr. McCarthy, still raw over his political downfall, said in what was interpreted as a vaguely threatening tone. “It’s a really nice district.”

🔷“Why don’t you come down and spend money there?” Mr. Good, the chairman of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus, taunted Mr. McCarthy in response.

🔶“Oh, I’m going to,” Mr. McCarthy shot back. “I might spend $5 million there, too.”
In this instance, Mr. McCarthy was as good as his word.

🔴In the months that followed, he helped direct more than $6 million into the race to defeat Mr. Good,
who is now fighting to hang on to his seat after coming up 375 votes short in his recent primary against a Trump-backed challenger, John J. #McGuire.
(Mr. Good’s campaign is paying for a recount, and he is claiming there was “inappropriate activity” at ballot drop boxes in Lynchburg, the district’s biggest city.)

Mr. McCarthy’s campaign to bring down Mr. Good was just one part of an ⭐️elaborate and expensive campaign of revenge ⭐️he has mounted since leaving Congress, one designed to ruin the Republicans he holds responsible for his demise.

“Bob Good was defeated, but the loser just can’t accept it yet,” said Brian O. #Walsh, a top McCarthy ally who is coordinating the former speaker’s efforts to unseat the so-called “Crazy Eight” Republicans who crossed him.

Mr. McCarthy spent more than $4 million in an unsuccessful bid to defeat Representative Nancy #Mace of South Carolina in her primary last month, and his allies are now promoting ethics allegations against her in hopes of making her unelectable in the future.

He and his allies are backing a challenger to Representative Eli #Crane of Arizona, the sole first-term Republican who voted to remove Mr. McCarthy, who faces a primary in August.

And Mr. McCarthy is going after Representative Matt #Gaetz of Florida, his chief tormentor and the ringleader of the push to depose him, pushing accusations that Mr. Gaetz had sex with an underage girl.

Representative Matt #Rosendale of Montana, another of the Republicans who voted to oust the former speaker, abruptly dropped his re-election bid in March after rampant rumors circulated that he had an affair with a staff member.

Mr. Walsh declined to comment on whether Mr. McCarthy and those in his orbit had anything to do with that decision. But Mr. Rosendale’s decision saved them millions of dollars.

nytimes.com/2024/07/07/us/poli

The New York Times · McCarthy’s Revenge Tour Rolls On, With Mixed ResultsVon Annie Karni